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Mother knows best and don't dare think otherwise around Beverly Goldberg, the laugh-out-loud funniest character on network TV. On the surface, the matriarch of "The Goldbergs," a sitcom based on the creator's real-life upbringing in '80s small-town Pennsylvania, is every kid's worst nightmare, a pampering parent who treats her three teenage children like they've just been toilet trained, assaulting them with a steady barrage of kisses, compliments and casseroles. But she's no softie. Mess with one of her babies and she'll come after you with all the wrath of Liam Neeson in "Taken." "The thing I love about Beverly is that...

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Mother knows best and don't dare think otherwise around Beverly Goldberg, the laugh-out-loud funniest character on network TV. On the surface, the matriarch of "The Goldbergs," a sitcom based on the creator's real-life upbringing in '80s...